Quotes About Integration

At the turn of the century, New York had more speakers of German than anywhere in the world except Vienna and Berlin, more Irish than anywhere but Dublin, more Russians than in Kiev, more Italians than in Milan or Naples. In 1890 the United States had 800 German newspapers and as late as the outbreak of World War I Baltimore alone had four elementary schools teaching in German only.

when authorities learned that Eugene O'Neill's play All God's Chillun proposed to show black and white children playing together as if that were normal, the district attorney for Manhattan sent the police to stop it.

Multiplicity which is not reduced to unity is confusion. Unity which does not depend on multiplicity is tyranny.

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from away and start being from here?

Keeping the team small also relieved Maytag of some management chores. New people who weren't working out didn't have to be fired. They would leave of their own accord. They simply couldn't last in a small group of people without the support of their peers. Conversely, those who meshed with the culture were embraced by the group and given more responsibility, with Maytag scarcely having to say a word.

Shortly after he became a judge in 1967, he began to preside over cases involving the racial integration of Virginia's secondary and elementary schools. He correctly read the law as requiring integration without unnecessary delay. Accordingly, he ordered mass bussing and other measures to move ahead on ending segregation. As a result, he became a hated man by a large number of Virginia dimwits who liked their white-only schools just fine.

Trump said, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" He had just met with the prime minister of Norway. Why not more Norwegians?

from shithole countries come here?" He had just met with the prime minister of Norway. Why not more Norwegians? Or Asians who could help the economy? Durbin was sickened. Graham was floored.

gather all the points of view, the data, integrate them if possible and present the president with some options, get a decision and develop an implementation plan.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Yo lo recordaba todo. (...) Quizá el olvido, como una bondadosa nieve, los entumeciera y los cubriera. Pero eran parte de mí. Eran m paisaje.

different as the animal with the touch of human hands about him when he returns to the herd

Modern innovations in Benidorm have not disturbed the rhythm of native customs.

anyone get in, with the crowd right

What life have you if you have not life together?

Information that fits with everything else we know has a leg up on feeling true. Just

Have you ever noticed that when you try to deny some part of yourself, things fall out so you need that part more than any other?

Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.

It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both." –James A. Michener

cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner (1977) wrote, "Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully" (p. 7).

A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics... But to learn from other cultures does not mean we should abandon our own.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.